American Politics
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Why That God Failed
Retreat from the Finland Station: Moral Odysseys in the Breakdown of Communism by kenneth murphy free press,…
Educating for Freedom?
An Aristocracy of Everyone: The Politics of Education and The Future of America by benjamin r. barber…
Attention Must Be Paid
Multiculturalism and “The Politics of Recognition” an essay by charles taylor with commentary by amy gutmann (editor),…
What Is To Be Learned From “The Church in Socialism”
The Public Square At Boston University’s Institute for the Study of Economic Culture, headed by sociologist Peter…
The Newtape File II
Dear Nephew, my hellborn one, Ah, how I delight in writing you as my esteemed Uncle, Screwtape,…
Walker Percy and the Christian Scandal
In Washington, where he was to give the eighteenth Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities on May 3,…
Picture Perfect: The Politics of Prenatal Testing
During the past two decades, prenatal screening for fetal defects has become a standard part of nearly…
Women, Ordination, and Angels
When Dr. George Carey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, visited Pope John Paul II in May 1992, the…
Momento Mori
What do the living know about the dead? I was called upon to wonder when the well-meaning…
Jesus Through the Eyes of John Rawls
Of late I have been reading John B. Meier’s A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus. I…
Homosexuality and the Moral Order
President Clinton’s decision to lift the ban against homosexuals in the military has opened a deep cultural…
Nihilism and the End of Law
When President Bush nominated Judge Clarence Thomas to a vacancy on the United States Supreme Court, liberals…
Other Plans: Journal of an Illness
I Ihad spent most of Saturday, February 29, 1992, Leap Year Day, working through a stack of…
About That Stolen Moment
“. . . saw little of note except. . . fortunately the Duomo was on that walk.…
The Other Okies
Rising in the West by dan morgan knopf, 532 pages, $25 Just when you thought it was…
